Permanent icon record
Animated sequence showing four variations of 'IV' text and eight 'R* star' icons in grayscale, with changing outlines and fill levels across frames.
Animated sequence showing four variations of 'IV' text and eight 'R* star' icons in grayscale, with changing outlines and fill levels across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 13, 2026
Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons
- Source title
- iv_animated
- Category
- iv / downloads / buddyicons
- Era
- 2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
- Observed
- July 13, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 6.4 KB
- Motion
- Animated (16 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 13, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/16/162d7b498cd3a226e205de728a7729ea4982308ab371c98669514a9f402e1d06.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Archive ID
- 162d7b498cd3a226
- SHA-256
- 162d7b498cd3a226e205de728a7729ea4982308ab371c98669514a9f402e1d06
Full source records (1)
Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons (wayback-gta-iv-2008-2009-official-buddy-icons)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- 2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
- Type
- 27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories
- Category
- iv / downloads / buddyicons
- Alt
- iv_animated
- Observed
- July 13, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
- Rights
- official copyrighted video-game promotional artwork; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- late-AIM-era crime-game character, logo, motorcycle-gang, and fictional consumer-brand identity icons
Original: http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/downloads/buddyicons/iv_animated.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20080720021708id_/http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/downloads/buddyicons/iv_animated.gif